Human readable DB

Excellent! How do I get this function to read the file a visitor
uploads, instead of just providing the information from php's separate
implementation of the zoneinfo data? I didn't think that was possible,
so I used the routines I wrote long ago for the same purpose.
Thanks,
=Billy Bennett
Escalations Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Derick Rethans [mailto:dr at ez.no]
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:32 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: TZ-list; sebastien at willemijns.com
Subject: RE: Human readable DB
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Bennett, Billy wrote:
> I have a php script that takes the compiled timzone file and produces
> a report you might find useful. I have not published it yet, it was a
> project from long ago that I lost the need for so the page has not
> been kept up to date, but the program there works and may meet your
> need.
Do you realize that PHP has this information already embedded? Since PHP
5.1 we bundle a compressed/archive version of the Olson database and use
it internally for all date/timezone operations. It's quite trivial to
generate this data:
<?php
$a = new DateTimeZone( "America/New_York" ); $ts = $a->getTransitions();
var_dump( $ts ); ?>
with kind regards,
Derick
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